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301 Been Possible Due to Restricted Access 301 Lockley, M.G. & Lucas, S.G., eds., 2014, Fossil footprints of western North America: NMMNHS Bulletin 62 NOTES ON A NEW ANKYLOSAUR TRACK FROM THE DAKOTA GROUP (CRETACEOUS) OF NORTHERN COLORADO MARTIN G. LOCKLEY 1 and GERARD D. GIERLINSKI 2 1 Dinosaur Tracks Museum, University of Colorado at Denver, PO Box 173364, Denver, Colorado, 80217; e-mail: [email protected]; 2 JuraPark, ul. Sandomierska 4, 27-400 Ostrowiec Swiztokrzyski, Polish Geological Institute, ul. Rakowiecka 4, 00-975 Warszawa, Poland; Poland; e-mail: [email protected] Abstract—A new report of an isolated, but well-preserved ornithischian track from a not-in-situ locality in northern Colorado is confidently attributed to an ankylosaurid trackmaker from the Dakota Group. It is one of the largest and oldest tracks yet recovered from the Dakota Group, and appears to have originated from the lower part of the section, where tracks are typically rare. INTRODUCTION University of Colorado Natural History Museum; YPM, Yale Peabody Museum in New Haven, Connecticut Many tracks preserved as large natural casts have been re- ported from Cretaceous siliciclastic facies in the Western Inte- GEOLOGICAL PROVENANCE rior region of the western USA. Reports of such occurrences in the Dakota Group are almost too numerous to mention, as The track was found in a gully on private land (from which evidenced from a number of papers in this volume (and refer- it was collected in 2009) at a site about 33 km north of Fort ences therein). Likewise, many reports of similar occurrences Collins, Colorado, before being donated to the University of are associated with the “MesaVerde Group,” especially in coal Colorado Denver Dinosaur Tracks Museum. According to avail- mines (Parker and Balsley, 1989; Parker and Rowley, 1989). able geological maps (Courtright and Braddock, 1989) the track These track-rich deposits, loosely referred to as coal-bearing, was found sitting on outcrops designated as belonging to the coastal-plain facies (Lockley et al., 1994), consist of heterolithic Triassic Lykins Formation (Fig. 1). Analysis of this map shows (anisotropic) sequences of sandstone and mudstone, that appear that the discovery site lies at the base of a slope capped by units to have been very conducive to the preservation of sandstone of the Cretaceous Dakota Group (Fig. 1). The lower part of the casts, especially in the coastal plain systems associated with the slope designated as (TRlu) represents the Triassic upper Lykins Western Interior Seaway. Formation, which is overlain, in ascending order by the follow- Many of these casts represent the sandy infillings of deep ing mapped units: the undivided Triassic Jelm and Middle-Up- tracks made in muddy substrates by large dinosaurs and, as a per Jurassic Sundance formations (designated as JTRsj), the result, once they lithified, they become very large, heavy and Jurassic Morrison Formation (Jm) and the Lytle Formation and bulbous natural casts. Once they weather out of outcrops they Plainview Sandstone Member of the South Platte Formation slide and roll down slopes, and are frequently found out of place: (Kspl): see Fig.1. As noted below (Fig. 1), the nomenclature and i.e., no longer in situ. Depending on the size and depth of these inferred age of pre-Morrison units is of no direct interest in casts they may weigh anywhere from ~5 to ~200 kg. While this determining the provenance of the track described here, and for may make collecting of the smaller, less-heavy casts easy, deter- this reason they are not discussed further. mining the horizon(s) from which they originated may be diffi- Based on the known distribution of large ornithischian cult, especially in cases where there are multiple track-bearing tracks it seems impossible that the track could have originated layers in similar lithologies. from anywhere below the Morrison Formation, and it is more We report on a single, large natural cast of a track weighing likely to have originated from the Dakota Group. Based on the ~75 kg that was discovered as a loose specimen from near Fort topography (see the cross section shown in Fig. 1) it is most Collins, Colorado (Fig. 1), and donated to the CU Denver Dino- probable that the track was eroded from the aforementioned saur Tracks Museum in 2009. The specimen (UCM 209.149, lower mapped unit of the Dakota Group (Kspl). If the track had formerly CU 29.149; Fig. 2) is a tetradactyl pes cast attributed to been eroded from one of the higher units in the Dakota Group, an ornithischian, specifically an ankylosaur, trackmaker. As the such as the Middle Shale member (Ksm) or First Sandstone locality is under private ownership, revisiting the site to locate member (Ksf) exposed farther to the northeast, barring the pos- the track-bearing layer and look for other specimens has not sibility of glacial transport, it appears that it would have been been possible due to restricted access. impossible to have been transported to the location where it was found without having had to have moved “up” the Kspl dip INSTITUTIONAL ABBREVIATIONS slope! Assuming an origination point in the Morrison Formation or Dakota Group, it is possible to compare this track with other CEUM, CEU Prehistoric Museum in Price, Utah; CU, Uni- ornithischian tracks found in these units. versity of Colorado at Denver, Colorado; CU-MWC, University This report is of interest because a smaller tetradactyl track of Colorado and Museum of Western Colorado joint collection; was observed by the senior author at an in situ outcrop at the top MOR, Museum of the Rockies in Bozeman, Montana; UCM of the Lytle-Plainview Formation near Bellvue, Colorado about 302 FIGURE 1. Locality map showing ankylosaur track locality discussed in this paper. Top left: location of site in northern Colorado. Bottom left: stratigraphic units after Courtright and Braddock (1989). See text for details. Top right and lower right: map and corresponding cross section showing where track was found at base of slope capped by Cretaceous rocks. See text for details. 10 km northwest of Fort Collins. The stratigraphy of this locality the shortest, and a digital length formula of II=III>IV>I. Measured is well known and sections have been published by Macke and between the hypicies, the toe casts are more or less equal in width Maughan (1985) and Weimer et al. (1990) (~11-12 cm wide), with those of digits II and III being longer (~17- 18 cm from hypex to toe tip) than digit IV (~ 14 cm) and digit I TRACK DESCRIPTION (~9-10 cm). Thus, the longest toes measured between toe tips and the hypicies on either side of digit III represent about 31-32% of The track cast (UCM 209.149) is of a tetradactyl ornithischian the overall length of the cast. The distal part of the cast of toe II right pes with wide, blunt toes (Fig. 2). The cast is 57 cm long and shows what appears to be the cast of an ungual protruding from 48 cm wide, and is broadly triangular in shape with the acute apex the cast of the fleshy part of the foot that surrounds it. Such traces, represented by the heel. As the posterior part of the heel trace may which appear to differentiate distinct morphological features of the represent forward and downward movement into the substrate as foot, are rare but have been reported in the case of ornithopods the foot registered, these raw cast measurements may not exactly (Lockley et al., 2006a, fig. 19) and theropods (Huerta Hurtado, correspond to the original foot size. However, because the track is 2001; Torcida Fernandez-Baldor et al., 2007). well-preserved, these measurements probably represent foot size with fair accuracy. The cast indicates a footprint at least 30 cm DISCUSSION deep. However, because there are no indications on the cast as to where the original substrate surface may have been relative to the We divide the following discussion into two parts; the first deepest part of the track, the depth estimate is imprecise. Neverthe- dealing with the age and occurrence of presumed ankylosaur less, as noted below, it is clear that the trackmaker was a large indi- tracks, and the second dealing with their morphological character- vidual in comparison with any other reported from this time interval. istics and implications for trackmaker identity. The toe casts are inferred to represent digits I-IV with digit I 303 FIGURE 2. The reported specimen: cf. Tetrapodosaurus sp. (UCM 209.149, formerly CU 209.149), presumed to be from the Dakota Group of northern Colorado. Photograph (left) shows natural cast of presumed right footprint. Line drawing (right) is a reversed tracing showing presumed ungual traces on digits II and IV. Age and Occurrence of Dakota Group Ankylosaur Tracks Morphological Characteristics Although ornithischian dinosaur tracks are common in the It is difficult to infer the identity or taxonomic affinity of track Dakota Group, especially in the upper part (Sequence 3 sensu makers responsible for making tracks and trackways that appear Weimer, 1989; Lockley et al., 1992, 2006b), most of these tracks attributable to the broad category of quadrupedal ornithischian. In have been attributed to ornithopods (ichnogenus Caririchnium). a recent review of all ornithischian track morphotypes (Lockley Ankylosaur tracks are relatively rare in the Dakota Group of east- et al., 2012), six categories were recognized, including those of ern Colorado. The first significant report (Kurtz et al., 2011) dealt small basal ornithischians with tridactyl pes footprints and large with an assemblage of large tracks inferred to be from Sequence ornithopods (iguanodontids and hadrosaurs), also with tridactyl 2 (Plainview Formation) near Cañon City, Colorado. This report pes footprints. In this discussion we deal only with trackmakers documents large pes tracks up to 48 cm long and 52 cm wide.
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